I have written a few entries, but just couldn't get it together to put them up.
The suppression phase of our cycle was due to start next Monday, incidentally the same day I'm sitting for the apparently difficult to pass Lactation Consultant exam.
Unfortunately, shortly after I began the "birth control lead-in" I developed a medium-sized ovarian cyst. I've never had one before to my knowledge. It is not something to be concerned about for the average lady, but it can interfere with ovarian hyper-stimulation. So...our cycle has been moved 4-8 weeks into the future. The date is sort of wishy-washy because we cannot really control when the cyst resolves or ruptures. The birth control should actually fix the cyst.
This sucks, but we're nearly over it now...I mean, we've waited this long, what's 2 MORE months? And of course...."EVERYTHING HAPPENS FOR A REASON...." ARRGGGHHH. Well the reason for this better be damn good. Here are a couple of reasons acceptable to us:
(1) I'm not one for wishing for natural disasters, but we're mid-hurricane season here. Maybe if we were to remain on our original schedule, a hurricane was planning to come and knock out power for a week the result of which would have been the loss of $3,500 worth of medications.
(2) Maybe the universe wants me to get a flu vaccine first; They arrive in late August.
(3) The universe wanted to give us several more chances to both play and win powerball.
Soon I'll post my angsty entries about teen pregnancy and our recent insurance change, and our exciting purchase this weekend of a station wagon. (Which may be overly hopeful but hey, we have 2 dogs and 2 kayaks...station wagons aren't only for parents).
I'm just taking this one day at a time for now...one foot in front of the other.
There are so many things about infertility treatments that are hard to deal with...massive mood swings, expensive medications, sticking yourself with needles...but, the delays really just blow. My husband is deployed overseas right now so, I have been doing this process essentially by myself. I've had many cysts in between IUI cycles because of the stim meds which have created delay after delay. I'm in the suppression stage of our IVF1 cycle and hoping desperately that everything goes as planned since the Army will be moving us before our next cycle with this RE.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, my husband bought a generator right before he left. I now think its sole purpose is to safe guard my medication in my refrigerator. A little nuts. Absolutely. :)
Hang in there!